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Colorado voters reject Prop CC Frumveller, Guttenberg win seats on board BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Proposition CC, the statewide ballot question that would have eliminated TABOR — Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights — refunds and used that money for K-12 education, higher education and transportation projects, was turned down by Colorado voters. As of Nov. 7, two days after Election Day, unofficial results showed 53.7% of voters said no to the measure, while 46.3% said yes. The measure asked voters to allow the state government to keep tax revenue that it currently must give back to taxpayers on an annual basis. “It was a great night for every Colorado taxpayer who will continue to enjoy their constitutional right to TABOR refunds,” Amy Oliver Cooke, executive vice president of the Independence Institute and a No on CC coalition member, said in a news release. “This is a mandate to the Colorado State Legislature, that they damn well better start prioritizing roads and education without raising taxes.” In the near future, depending on individual taxpayers’ yearly income, a TABOR refund in one year could be as low as $20 or as high as $79. Joint filers would get twice as much. Colorado voters in 1992 passed
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an amendment to the Colorado Constitution, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, which limits the amount of money the state
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government can collect and spend, or save, each year.
Kim Frumveller and John Guttenberg will be replacing two outgoing Elizabeth Board of Education members whose terms end this month. Frumveller received 3,708 votes and Guttenberg received 3,852 votes, while candidate Valerie Jeffers received 1,957 votes. Both winning candidates were endorsed by the Elbert County Republicans, who stated: “Kim and John are both fiscal conservatives who oppose federal mandates like Common Core
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More than 9,000 votes cast in balloting to fill two positions
Of the estimated 18.2 million U.S. veterans alive today, about 614,000 are World War II vets — about 3.4%.
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